Sentences with phrase «cultural meaning systems»

According to the same study, «children's participation in mundane daily life activities (i.e. bathing, eating, chores) are a critical foundation upon which social relationships and ultimately cultural meaning systems are constructed.»

Not exact matches

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

That means that we shall have to enter into philosophical and cultural - linguistic systems other than our own and show in their terms that what we say makes sense, or that that system is in itself confused on its own terms, and that we are prepared to abandon our beliefs if they can not make sense in other viable systems and hence are not universal in significance.

By social systems is meant the sum total of all humanly developed knowledge, cultural patterns, institutions, values, and goals.

(24) Structuralism, the critical theory that asserts that meaning is a function of the structures of a cultural system, presumes communities that give rise to and nurture the structures of that culture.

A too easy, although quite compelling, way of making the point is that «salvation» is a notion whose meaning is understandable only within the Christian cultural - linguistic system, so of course no one else has it; whatever Buddhists or Confucians, say, are after, it is not salvation.

Its democratic system means that companies such as Tesco and Wal - Mart have found themselves politically stymied by literally millions of small business people and market vendors who fear losing their livelihoods, while others such as B&Q have been the wrong cultural fit (DIY is not very common in Indian society).

«Much of corruption is cultural, and in New York that means that you have to think about the way the New York political system has developed over more than 200 years,» Rodgers said.

I'm by no means saying we should apply a polling system to accurately measure a person's value and accomplishments to the larger cultural and political landscape.

Undertale has become a cultural phenomenon with its classic look, clever gameplay systems, interesting humor, and deep meaning.

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With their obsessive nature and encyclopedic magnitude, Darboven's visualizations of time and recent history, as well as the collection, selection, and rearrangement of knowledge in form of handwritten excerpts, photographic, literary, and journalistic documents of cultural history, bear witness to the artist's attempt to counter the information flood and the alleged chaos of the (post --RRB- modern world by creating an autonomous classification system and by placing herself in an individual framework of meaning.

His work participates in systems of cultural production while simultaneously critiquing them, reversing perspectives and subjects and opening the work to multiple meanings.

They have set up a basecamp at 319 Scholes Str which will explore what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web.

They depend on systems of meanings and cultural behaviours; they derive from personal experiences, understandings, and opinions.

The vinyl images have been repurposed as covers for farmers» crops, pond liners, patches for damaged doors or sculptures, their photographic images obscured, with their original meaning subverted, they are a re-used by - product of a dead economy, exhausted of their original context, meaning, and purpose, they signify the mechanism of value transfer through cultural systems perpetually in flux.

Of course, my favorite method for finding out the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group is to simply say, «Fossil fuels are beneficial because they provide abundant and inexpensive energy for the most people.

From an urban planning perspective, that means seeing each site as a unique ecological system; responding creatively to its natural and cultural landscapes; and enhancing the natural flows of nutrients, water, and clean energy that support life and regenerative growth.

These sophisticated sets of understandings, interpretations and means are part and parcel of a cultural complex that encompasses language, naming and classification systems, resource use practices, ritual, spirituality and worldview.

The common themes include: a shared negative experience of colonisation and cultural disruption, including in many cases catastrophic declines in physical, spiritual and cultural health and wellness over multiple generations; the consequent desire among First Nations to regain Indigenous self - determination and self - governance in order to nurture healthy and happy future generations; the need to understand cultural differences in how the meanings of health and wellness are understood and applied at the community, family and individual levels, and to therefore identify culturally appropriate responses, including traditional modalities and safe systems of care; the significance of cultural diversity between different Indigenous groups or communities within both countries; the differing needs and circumstances for Indigenous health and wellness in urban, regional and remote settings; and the challenges of delivering health services to remote communities in often harsh environments.

«The treatment he received ten years on [from implementing the Health Performance Framework] means that the health systems are still not being responsive and, forget the cultural component for a moment, they're still not being responsive in terms of dignity and in terms of the treatment of a fellow human being,» said Wyatt.

The deepening knowledge of these cultural differences will promote greater awareness among operators, regardless of what the standard of management in families from different cultures, providing them with means of assessment and intervention for family systems, which is sensitive to the cultural background of family under consideration.

We introduce the cultural models of autonomy and relatedness as a conceptual framework to explain different belief and meaning systems shared by different cultural groups.